Speeches+of+the+Natives

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__ I Will Fight No More Forever:  __ **__S__**__peaker:__ Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1840-September 21, 1904) Died of natural causes. **__P__**__urpose:__ To voice his surrender to the American forces at the end of the Nez Perce War after the Bear Paws battle. **__A__**__udience:__ American forces and Generals **__M__**__edium:__ Surrender Speech on November 17, 1877 The following video can assist you in grasping the strength of Chief Joseph's word and the emotional impact it puts upon the audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufvox0T9K_w

__ This Sacred Soil:  __ **__S__**__peaker:__ Chief Seattle of the Lushootseed (?-June 6, 1866 approx. 80 years old) Died of Illness **__P__**__urpose:__ To tell why the foreigners will not be able to live with the natives. **__A__**__udience:__ The “White Man” **__M__**__edium:__ Speech to the Foreigners who are invading the land. Background information on the Chiefs: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/buerge2.html 
 * __ I Will Fight No More Forever: By Chief Joseph __**

__Epistophe:__ > Toohulhulsote is dead. > The old men are all dead. > He who led the young men is dead. > Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
 * Literary devices:**
 * Looking Glass is dead.

__Anastrophe:__ > Have run away to the hills
 * My people, some of them,
 * I will fight no more forever

__Asyndeton:__ · And have no blankets, no food.

__Parallelism:__ · My heart is sad and sick


 * Rhetorical Devices:**

__Ethos (credibility):__ __Pathos (Emotion):__ __Logos (logic):__
 * Chief Joseph was strong leader of the Nez Perce tribe since 1877 and fought all his life against the government and their attempts to relocate his tribe to reservations. His father, Old Joseph, was also a chief of the Nez Perce indians who fought for the tribe's rights.
 * Chief Joseph uses several techniques to bring up emotion in the audience from mentioning children to the use of repitition.
 * "The little children are freezing to death."
 * "Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulsote is dead. The old men are all dead."
 * The main idea of the speech is Chief Joseph stating that he is done with fighting "forever" thus the logic behind him wanting to finish is for the children and the growing number of casualties.
 * " I want to have time to look for my children.."
 * " Perhaps they are freezing to death."

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 * __ This Sacred Soil: By Chief Seattle
 * Literary Devices:**

__Anaphora:__
 * Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward
 * Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine!

__Figurative Speech:__ __Simile:__ · My words are like the stars that never change. · They are like the grass that covers vast prairies. · Out people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. · Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. · He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son. · His red children whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament. · …he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter. __Metaphor:__ · His brave warriors will be to us a bristling wall of strength. Personification: · Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion… · Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.

__Parallelism:__ · I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay…. · ..and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them. · Tribe follows tribe, nation follows nation…

__Anastrophe:__ · …our great and good father, I say, sends us word that if we do as he desires he will protect us.

__Rhetorical Question:__ · Then in reality he will be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? · How then can we be brothers? · How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? · But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? · Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.

__Polysyndeton:__ · They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains · Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove…

__ethos (credibility):__
 * Rhetorical devices:**
 * As the son of the leader of the Suquamish tribe, Cheif Seattle grew strong and respectful. As a young man he gained an admirable reputation as a leader and warrior which leads to the trust and credibility that the audience was able to put forth on him during his speech.

__Pathos (Emotion):__ __Logos (logic):__
 * Chief Seattle mentions their ancestors several times throughout the speech wich brings back memories and emotions of the audience's lost loved ones. He also brings up the mothers and elders of the tribe to bring sympathy upon them and draw more emotion from the audience.
 * "Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them."
 * "...but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better."
 * Chief Joseph helps better persuade his audience by bringing up logic with mentions of God and nature.
 * "The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them."
 * "Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward."

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